MSCI211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Distributive Justice, Group Cohesiveness, Profit Sharing

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Management Sciences
• Course: MSCI211
• Professor: Clifford Blake

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Theory x assumption that employees dislike work will attempt to avoid it, must be coerced, controlled, threatened with punishment to achieve goals (negative) Theory y- assumption that employees like work, are creative, seek responsibility, and will exercise self- direction and self-control if they are committed to the objectives(positive) Intrinsic motivators: a person"s internal desire to do something, due to interest, challenge, and personal satisfaction. Extrinsic motivators: motivation that comes from outside the person and includes pay bonuses, other tangible rewards. Needs theories: types of needs that must be met in order to motivate individuals. Process theories: helps understand the actual ways in which we and others can be motivated. He said that every human has 5 needs: physiological. Hunger, thirst, shelter, sex, other bodily needs: safety. Internal esteem factors such as self-respect, autonomy, and achievement; and external esteem factors such as status, recognition, and attention: self-actualization. Growth, achieving one"s potential, self-fulfillment (drive to become which one is capable.